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Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves — Bill Anderson

The best stories are like the best burgers: big, juicy, and messy. — A.D. Posey

Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best. — James Russell Lowell

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude. — Jonathan Franzen

The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book. — Tony Ardizzone

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea. — Chad Harbach

Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views. — Nadine Gordimer

Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best. — Aaron Shepard

The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful. — Pat Pattison

The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed. — Doris Lessing

The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing,
is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you
didnt know was in you. — Larry L. King

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best? — Jay-Z

There's power in stories, though. That's all history is: the best tales. The ones that last. Might as well be mine. — Varric Tethras

The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest. — Horace Greeley

The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul. — Ndiritu Wahome

All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist. — Michael Stutz

My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write. — William Faulkner

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it. — Anthony Storr

What's the best part about writing a book?
Finishing it. — Rick Riordan

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train. — Nell Freudenberger

The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat. — Fran Lebowitz

The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about. — Shannon L. Alder

The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm. — Christos Tsiolkas

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. — Arthur Miller

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

Habit is the best thing for you if you're trying to write prose. — Alan Cheuse

The best part of having your dreams come true is you get to make new ones! — Jaimie Engle

Sometimes saying 'goodbye' may be the best thing to say to someone! — Avijeet Das

The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell. — Alan Menken

The best writing is when one writes from the soul — Ndiritu Wahome

The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down. — Stephen Malkmus

This is the best time to be an author. — Geraldine Solon

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. — Jennifer Weiner

'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were based on real cases. — Michael Mann

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato. — George Berkeley

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer. — Russell Banks

The best writing has no lace on its sleeves. — Walt Whitman

I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing. — Kathryn Lasky

Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn. — Jami Attenberg

I really like writing in English, and it's the best job I've ever had. — Nell Zink

The best writing is embarrassing; that's all there is to it. — A.D. Posey

The best lie is the one that has an element of truth, so it's good to include something real in your fiction. — Renee Conoulty

Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life. — Anita Loos

The hardest things to write are often the best things to read. And the most deserving to be written. — David Alejandro Fearnhead

I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read. — Gayl Jones

It's a myth that Sanskrit is the best language for writing computer code. Patriotic Indians have spread this lie for many years - Bill Gates — Manu Joseph

I can assure you, as anyone who has ever met a muse knows, the best way to get a muse to hang around is to show you could be having fun without her. — Z.A. Maxfield

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything. — Langston Hughes

The best kind of day is a writing day — Buffy Andrews

The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming. — Neil Gaiman

The best way to keep your house spotless is to begin writing a novel. — Jen Knox

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you. — Michael Arndt

Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best. — Terry Southern

The best writing is rewriting. — E.B. White

All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics. — Carla H. Krueger

I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town. — Rita Mae Brown

Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better. — Tom Robbins

Your best authorial self is always one about to ruin the story. — Chuck Wendig

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned. — Wally Lamb

There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry. — Rupert Brooke

Writing studio movies is the best job in the world ... it's awesome. — Thomas Lennon

Writing is the best anti-depressant. — Fierce Dolan

Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles. — Norm MacDonald

When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down. — Stephen King

Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had. — Raymond E. Feist

Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters. — Brian A. McBride

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes - when we write small to say something big. — Anthony Shadid

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications. — Manuel Rivas

There are many advices on writing. The best I know is stop reading them and start writing — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I worked as hard to write the worst film of the year as I did to write the best film of the year. — Brian Helgeland

I write my stories for my children, the best fan club a writer could ever have. They keep me writing and make it fun. — Alan W. Harris

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats. — Aldous Huxley

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer. — Jean Craighead George

The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel. — Michael Scott

Writing it was the best part, but clicking the enter button was the most difficult. — Ali Shams

The best writing reflects the author's ideas and communicates them clearly to the reader. — Steve Dunham

Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess. — Esther Freud

Writers will happen in the best of families. — Rita Mae Brown

I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration. — Norm MacDonald

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books. — Richard Scarry

The best fantasy writer are the ones that stopped fighting with their inner demons, and started writing about them. — Solomon Woytowich

Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details. — Bailey Vincent

Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can. — S.A. Tawks

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write. — Ernest Hemingway,

I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics. — Jeff VanderMeer

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself. — Stephen King

The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing. — Jared Diamond

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.' — Christopher Buckley

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do. — William Zinsser

I write because it's the only thing I love that always loves me back. — Crystal Woods

The best writing comes out when you find yourself broken. Your heart is ripped open and all the feelings spill out into a beautiful mess on paper. — Shannen Wrass

Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline. — Pete Townshend

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven. — Stephen King

I have a great book. It's called Stantasyland. Except I don't have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass. — Lawrence Block

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. — Winston S. Churchill

It's easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What's difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book you can write. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana